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Article: I MISSED OUT ON LED ZEPPELIN FORTUNE; Tickets to see the reunion of Midland supergroup Led Zeppelin are changing hands for pounds 1,600 a time. LORNE JACKSON meets the man who was left behind when Robert Plant and John Bonham turned superstar millionaires.(News)
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- Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England)
- Article date:
- November 25, 2007
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Byline: LORNE JACKSON
HIGHER education certainly wasn't like this when I was a student.
There's the drumming for a start.
The third floor corridor in Kidderminster College has turned into a brontosaurus's rib cage, with its very own hammering heartbeat; a tinpandemonium of rat-tat-tat, thumpthump-thump, boom-bang-a-bang.
This is followed by the clangour of guitar strings and the slapping of keyboard.
Doors don't lead onto classrooms round here, but into recording studios.
I'm getting the grand tour from senior music ...